– Benoît Magimel, Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charlotte Hope and Félix Vannoorenberghe all star in the cast of this film steered by Karé Productions and sold by Indie Sales
Actor Benoît Magimel (© 2026 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa – fadege.it, @fadege.it) and actresses Léa Drucker (© 2026 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa – fadege.it, @fadege.it) and Mélanie Thierry (© 2026 Fabrizio de Gennaro for Cineuropa – fadege.it, @fadege.it)
Carine Tardieu has been shooting All the Little Live Things – her 6th feature film after In Mom’s Head (323,000 admissions in France in 2007), The Dandelions (619,000 viewers in France in 2012), Just to Be Sure (screened in the 2017 Directors’ Fortnight), The Young Lovers (which earned itself a nomination for the 2023 Best Actress César) and The Ties That Bind Us (unveiled in Venice’s Orizzonti section in 2024 and awarded three Césars this year, including Best Film) – since 2 June. This new film of hers already scooped the ArteKino International Prize in Cannes last month, courtesy of the Marché du Film’s Investors Circle (read our news).
Stand-out names in the cast include Benoît Magimel (named Best Actor in Cannes in 2001, awarded the César and Lumière trophies for Best Actor thanks to Peaceful and Pacifiction, well-received in Cannes last month in The Birthday Party and De Gaulle: Tilting Iron and soon appearing in Banquise), Léa Drucker (awarded the Best Actress César for Custody and Case 137, nominated again in 2024 and recently brilliant in Cannes in A Woman’s Life), Mélanie Thierry (nominated twice for the Best Actress César and on show in Cannes in A Woman’s Life and The Diary of a Chambermaid), English talent Charlotte Hope (of Game of Thrones and the mini-series Catch Me a Killer) and Belgium’s Félix Vannoorenberghe (seen in The Assembly Line and the series Greek Salad).
Adapted by the director herself together with Delphine Agut (awarded the Best Screenplay César for Souleymane’s Story) and Raphaële Moussafir (with the former and latter having bagged the Best Adapted Screenplay César for The Ties That Bind Us), and with help from Agnès de Sacy, based on the eponymous novel by US writer Wallace Stegner (who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1972), the story revolves around Joseph and Alice who have just lost their son at the tender age of 25. They withdraw to the countryside in search of some sort of quietude, but when a bright and lively neighbour and a young camper who can’t find his way burst into their lives, life soon catches up with the couple…
All The Little Live Things is being produced by Antoine Rein and Fabrice Goldstein on behalf of Karé Productions (the filmmaker’s usual partner in crime), in co-production with France 2 Cinéma and Belgian firm Beside Productions. Pre-purchased by Canal+, Ciné+ OCS, France Télévisions, RTBF, Proximus and BeTV, the feature film enjoys support from nine SOFICA companies (Palatine Étoile, Cinéaxe, Cinécap, La Banque Postale Image, Cofimage, Indéfilms, Cinémage, Entourage Sofica and Imagellium) as well as from the Normandy region where the seven-week film shoot is unfolding (in Cherbourg, the Perche region, Le Havre and Fécamp), with Elin Kirschfink (nominated for the César in her field via The Ties That Bind Us) heading up photography. World sales are entrusted to Indie Sales while the film’s release in French cinemas falls to Diaphana.
For the record, Karé Productions are currently overseeing post-production on A Man’s Skin by Léa Domenach (read our article).
(Translated from French)
